Deciding when to talk to your kids about sex

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I think that it's so important to be, again, intentional about how you talk to your children about sex and to have a plan for how you're going to communicate that to them, to understand that your doing it informally. But from a formal perspective, one of the things that we've done in our family is that we've chosen 11 as that age where we're going to have that formal conversation with our kids. And so we take them away for what we call our "purity weekend" and we have a wonderful weekend together with just that one child. I take my daughter, my husband has taken our sons. And during that weekend we listen to a great series of tapes about purity. Purity of mind, body, spirit and attitude. We have lots of wonderful conversations and at the end we ask our children to make a pledge, to choose to make a pledge of whether or not they want to be pure in these different areas. And we cement that agreement with a memento. For my daughter, I gave her a ring and it was her purity ring that she wears and that she wants to someday give to her husband as a token of her purity.

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Wanda Jones-Yeatman is the owner of WJY Consulting, a small firm specializing in providing a variety of consulting, training, facilitation, coaching and program management services to organizations and individuals. Wanda has worked in the field of education and training for over 25 years, with extensive experience in personality type and its application, team-building, communication, success coaching, career development, human relations, conflict management and peacemaking, management training, leadership development, group facilitation, organizational development and multicultural awareness. As a consultant Wanda has served as an internal organizational coach focusing on subjects such as supervisory leadership, teambuilding, communication, conflict resolution and workforce planning. 

Wanda was born in Roanoke, VA and grew up all over the world as part of a military family. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Arizona State University and a M. Ed. from the University of Maryland in Counseling and Personnel Services. Wanda is married, mother of four wonderful children and resides in Maryland.

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I think that it's so important to be, again, intentional about how you talk to your children about sex and to have a plan for how you're going to communicate that to them, to understand that your doing it informally. But from a formal perspective, one of the things that we've done in our family is that we've chosen 11 as that age where we're going to have that formal conversation with our kids. And so we take them away for what we call our "purity weekend" and we have a wonderful weekend together with just that one child. I take my daughter, my husband has taken our sons. And during that weekend we listen to a great series of tapes about purity. Purity of mind, body, spirit and attitude. We have lots of wonderful conversations and at the end we ask our children to make a pledge, to choose to make a pledge of whether or not they want to be pure in these different areas. And we cement that agreement with a memento. For my daughter, I gave her a ring and it was her purity ring that she wears and that she wants to someday give to her husband as a token of her purity.